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Try rain/snowing for 3 months... :D

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Unimaginable ;).
Today is sixth wet day an Im pretty nuts.
:woohoonaner:

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60's today & mostly sunny!!! :) This could be the last time for decent weather till spring. Gotta get out & finish touch up painting around windows.
Hang in there Ante:)

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42 degrees cold at 12:48 AM!

My baby bananas are cuddled under a U-Haul blanket pad:bed:--that should give them some protection from the cold.

first cold night of the fall here.

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Not good! Hurricane warning! We are dead center of projections. My biggest concern is the citrus trees--loaded with fruit to the point of almost breaking limbs from the weight of fruit. I am worried that the winds will break a lot of limbs and strip fruit. I have tried to stake and tie branches as much as possible, but I am sure there will be some damage.

Pecan tree will be the next biggest problem--it too is loaded and just starting to drop nuts, but many are still in solid green husk. Likely to get some broken limbs there.

Bananas in containers, I can lay down, but I wonder if I should cut leaves from the inground pstems to prevent breakage of larger plants. Any suggestions?

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A reporter was on this a.m. from Pensacola warning ppl of that hurricane moving in & I thought of you. Stay safe & I hope your plants & trees will be OK!

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Take good care with that hurricane folks.
:woohoonaner:
Guess what?
Still raining here :(

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Jack and Ante! Send that rain my way. Ecuador's in a drought so bad that we've got rolling blackouts - not enough rain has fallen to fill the reservoirs at the hydro projects.

This said, it's about 110 here with no clouds in sight, and 90% humidity. We're all praying that we'll get a thunderstorm with actual rain tonight.

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Take care sbl, you and all those in the path of this storm are in my prayers. Be safe!

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Good news is that they have downgraded the storm--it is no longer expected to hit as a minimal hurricane--just a tropical storm. I staked and tied the citrus trees and they are not moving at all in the wind. So far, this looks like just a rain event.

Lorax, I wish I could send you this rain--we are already a foot over normal and this one rain will probably exceed the normal rain for Nov by itself.

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We ended up with 4 inches of rain and a gusty, misty day today. Really nasty but it could have been much worse. Just some broken leaves on the ornatas.

Now if it would just LEAVE!!!!!!!

Russell

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Ida was the kind of hurricane I like--one that fizzes out and doesn't rain too much--4 inches is plenty.

No damage here--just put a few pecans on the ground.

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We finally had our first significant rain since last spring, and it put down a 1/4 inch.

:woohoonaner:

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Wow. I guess the girls are right, it never rains in southern California! Living in one of the nation's rainiest cities, that's hard for me to wrap my mind around...

Russell

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Man i hear you Richard we had a bit yesterday to it hasint rained here since May and that was just a spit. we didn't have any rain in are normal rainy seson this year. has your temp been abnormaly warm this year? we have been running 10 to 15deg f above

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Yes, definitely a warm Fall. My night-time lows are 45 F and the daytime highs are 75 F.

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Send some warmth up here, Richard. We've had cold weather early, with frosts coming about a month earlier than historical averages. We had our 5th day of frost on 11/30 and looks like we'll have frost again later this morning. Not too heavy, though, so my bananas are keeping their leaves so far. The days warm up nicely, though. I think we hit the mid 60s yesterday.

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Into the mid 100's today, looks like, with 60-80 kph winds, and no rain in sight.

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Gosh, Beth, hope you don't dry out like a prune! :ha: We're at 32.1F right now and that almost sounds better than your weather.